Detail of Paula Rego, 'Crivelli's Garden', 1990. London, National Gallery.

Paula Rego 1989-90

Born in Portugal in 1935, Paula Rego came to England to study at the Slade School of Art in 1952. Her large-scale figurative pictures offer complex narratives that are loaded with psychological tensions and dramas, exploring a whole range of emotions that lie just below the surface of things.

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